In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Dramatic Exits from unknowable biker entity Peter Wilson to Carlos Roa’s apocalypse via a chest prod for Stan Bowles. They also talk other sports in football grounds and oldest managers, while Record Breakers brings mourning from Milan. Nearly-new feature The Final Third sees Alex Green from Grimsby Town podcast DN35 donate a match, player and object to the WSC Museum of Football.
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Fans don’t go to Brentford’s stadium for prestige, they go for the local character and, recently, the brilliant entertainment
Only via the FA Cup and only in the 1970s could Leatherhead make such an impact on the public imagination, as Jon Spurling explained in WSC 232, June 2006
The life and career
of Tony Currie
by EJ Huntley
Pitch Publishing, £12.99
Reviewed by David Stubbs
From WSC 349 March 2016
There’s a strange fascination about Tony Currie that runs in parallel with the late David Bowie, or even the school of provocatively effeminate wrestlers of the early 1970s such as Adrian Street – glam Englishmen whose apparent purpose was to raise the hackles of a more stolid, crewcut older generation with their flamboyant, long-haired antics.
by Mick Kelly
Pennant Books, £9.99
Reviewed by John Carter
From WSC 275 January 2010
“May you live in interesting times” goes the Chinese saying and Queens Park Rangers supporters certainly do. They’ve had a chairman ambushed at gunpoint, been taken over by a consortium that, temporarily, made them “the richest club in the world” and welcomed seven different managers, all in four years.